The mayor of Torrejón de Ardoz, Alejandro Navarro, accompanied by the Councilor for Tourism, Miriam Gutiérrez, have given recognition to the Basketball player Torrejonero, Iván Aurrecoechea, by the 3 × 3 basketball world championship that achieved last June with the Spanish team in Ulán Bator (Mongolia). In the final they won Switzerland by 21-17, achieving Aurrecoechea the decisive basket with a spectacular mate.
Alejandro Navarro took advantage of the presence in Torrejón de Ardoz del Coviran Granada, current team of Iván Aurrecoechea, who was training in the José Antonio Paraíso pavilion before playing a friendly preseason match in Fuenlabrada last Thursday. In addition, the squad gave the mayor a shirt as a show of thanks to the City Council.
Iván Aurrecoechea (2.03m, 1995) plays in the pivot position. In the 2022-2023 season he returned to Spain after signing for the good Arenas Albacete, after playing professionally in Chile (Los Leones de Quilpé school, 2022) and Iceland (UMF Grindavik, 2021-22 and Thor Akuyeri, 2020-21), and formically form in the United States (Junior College of Indian Hills, and State University of New Mexico, NCAA). This same season 2022-2023 ended at the students that signed him to dispute the promotion playoff.
Iván Aurrecoechea began playing at the Basket Torrejón at age five and went through the student quarry in the 2013-14 season where it coincided with players like Lucas Nogueira, Darío Brizuela or Juancho Hernangómez. Then Leb Plata played in Guadalajara (2014-15) and was part of the Canary Islands Basketball Academy.
“I congratulate you on behalf of all the Torrejoneros by this gold medal in the World Championship. The 3 × 3 basketball is growing more and more in our country, after becoming known among the general public in the last Olympic Games of Paris 2024, and it is a pride for Torrejón de Ardoz to have one of our neighbors as part of the Spanish team,” said the mayor, Alejandro Navarro, added that “ He has always had great basketball players such as Jorge Garbajosa, José Antonio Paraíso and, currently, Santiago Yusta, in addition to you. ”
